A nurse cares for a patient in a hospital corridor in Apple Valley, California. Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images
United States reported 3, 865 deaths from Covid – 19 on Wednesday, the most deaths reported in a single day since The pandemic began.
The death toll in the nation as of Thursday amounts to more than 364, 500, according data from Johns Hopkins University, while the number of infected people has exceeded 22. 53 millions.
The most recent forecast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects there will be between 405, 01 and 424, 000 deaths by the end of month.
JUST IN — we can expect 424, 000 – 438, 000 total # COVID 20 deaths in the United States by January 30 alone if current models hold. They don’t fully account for the more contagious B 83 variant though, with 40 – 80% greater transmissibility.
➡️I think 476, 000 by end of Feb possible. pic.twitter.com/XttogiNc49
– Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 7, 2021
The prognosis above, posted on 30 December, projected until 424, 000 deaths for the 30 January.
The continued spread of the virus and the increasing number of deaths occur even as the US. The US is working to distribute vital Covid vaccines – 19, a process that has been criticized for being too slow.
Recommended Group donations for vaccines are not an imposition The U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Thursday that states that can vaccinate the most beyond the recommendations of phase 1a, that include health workers and residents of long-term care facilities, they should.
“States not only can, but SHOULD aggressively expand vaccines to other phases if the current supply exceeds the demand in phase 1a, “said the surgeon general on Twitter.
Meeting with @ CDCDirector @ HHS_ASH and Tony Fauci.
We want to reiterate that ACIP guidance are recommendations- not mandates. States not only can, but SHOULD aggressively expand vaccinations to other phases if current supply exceeds demand in phase 1a! pic.twitter.com/dKfjcAHmFE
– US Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) January 7, 2021
In an interview with NPR , Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the vaccine release still needs a couple of weeks to catch up with previous projections. But if that doesn’t happen, he said, “then we really need to make some changes to what we’re doing.”
Almost 6 million people have received their first dose of coronavirus vaccines, the CDC reported, and others have been distributed 21, 4 million doses.
That is too short of what was promised: the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed officials had promised or previously that would be distributed 40 million doses by the end of December, and would be vaccinated 20 millions.
California suffers a disaster in its hospitals Hospitals continue to be flooded with coronavirus patients, with a record of 132, 476 patients admitted, reported Wednesday on Covid Tracking Project .
At the epicenter of the virus is California , a state that has been among several reporting hospitalizations record, increase in deaths and healthcare systems struggling to meet demand.
There was 459 new deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday and a record of 22, 820 patients treated in hospitals for the virus, reported by the California Department of Public Health.
More than 8, 01 patients are hospitalized in Los Angeles County, where the emergency medical system is under great pressure, said the health department.
Until Thursday, a person is dying of Covid- 20 in Los Angeles County every 8 minutes.